Having read a post on supermarket petrol, I just wondered if their own brand of food goods were inferior?e infe

[Kerry]

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[Kerry]

The the Tesco own brand?

[ELVIS68]

I never buy meat from supermarkets

[Kerry]

I'm not talking about Victoria here Elvis!

[Kerry]

Opps sorry she aint full of fat, is she ?

[jno]

taste them and see. Your car can't tell you if Tesco fuel has an aroma of blackberries and an aftertaste of fresh tar; but you can tell whether you like the taste of food. I think Sainsbury's Tastee the Difference is the best lasagne in the world.

[ELVIS68]

I`m talking about meat not vegetables

Oops that`s bad

[puternut]

Used to work for a well known food manufacturer which used edible fats as the base for all their output.

They had thier own line which did use the best quality and more expensive oils but supermarket lines used the same oils but in different proportions (i.e. more of the cheaper ones) to get the cost down.

Can't remember if Tesco was a specific supermarket but certainly some own brands were there

[Buenchico]

No supermarket has their own food factories. All of their products are purchased from the same places that supply many of the well-known brand names. That could mean the same quality, higher quality or lower quality, depending upon the criteria set by each supermarket.

For example, the first job I ever worked in (between 5th form and 6th form, or Year 11 and Year 12 if you're younger than me!) was in a pork pie factory. Most of the production was under the company's own name (Harris Pork Pies) but they also made pork pies for Marks and Spencers. The quality of the M&S pies was of a higher quality than the 'normal' production.

Similarly, I did a student job working at a firm which produced frozen sliced green beans. None of the beans left the plant with the name of the factory (Christian Salvesen) on the packaging. They were bagged as products from 'Ross', 'Findus', 'Spar',etc. They were the SAME beans, from the SAME farms, processed in the SAME way, irrespective of the packaging. The only difference was that the beans for the cheaper brand labels went through a slightly less rigorous sorting process (to remove stray bits of bean plants) than the dearer products did.

Depending upon the criteria set by each supermarket, for each product, some supermarket 'own brands' will be BETTER than the 'branded' products. Others will be exactly the same, whereas some (particularly with 'value' labelling) might be slightly inferior. It's up to customers to decide what is best for them by actually tasting, or using, the product, rather than looking for a brand name.

Chris

[Kerry]

l've heard Lidi's label soup is from Campbell's, and i've heard they share the same owners I would expect the same with their soups too.